dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
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The Azure-SSIS IR Startup Time
If you want to run SSIS packages in Azure Data Factory, you need the Azure SSIS Integration Runtime (quite the mouthful), which is basically a cluster of virtual machines...
2019-07-09 (first published: 2019-06-19)
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What is a container anyway?
Recently there was a thread on Twitter which established that a lot of IT people didn’t know the difference between virtual machines and containers. |???????|| CONTAINERS || ARE NOT...
2019-06-19
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Comparing Execution Plans
When you run a query twice, and get dramatically different run times, your first step can be to try to identify the differences in execution plans. For many that...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-19)
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What permissions do temp stored procedures use?
In a performance tuning class I recently took with Brent Ozar (b/t) he mentioned temporary stored procedures and an interesting ... Continue reading
2019-06-19
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Default resource limits for Windows vs Linux containers in Docker Desktop
Docker Desktop is a great product imho. The ability to run Windows and Linux containers locally is great for development and has allowed me to really dig into SQL...
2019-07-03 (first published: 2019-06-19)
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dbatools v1.0? It’s available – Check it out!
Dear reader, before continue please open a PowerShell console and run the following command: If you are doing this on the date of this blog post, you have just...
2019-06-19
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dbatools v1.0? It's available - Check it out!
Dear reader, before continue please open a PowerShell console and run the following command:
Install-Module -Name dbatools If you are doing this on the date of this blog post, you...
2019-06-19
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Achieving application consistent recovery points of SQL Server 2008 R2 with Azure Site Recovery in Azure
If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You...
2019-06-18
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 9: ILIKE
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to...
2019-07-02 (first published: 2019-06-18)
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